ABSTRACT
The Burgrave of Nuremberg, Frederick VI of that name and title, got more worry than satisfaction out of the little territory awarded him in return for his advances of money and valuable diplomatic services to the Emperor Sigismund. Frederick, the first Hohenzollern Elector, did not, as Margrave, identify himself with his wild fief so lovingly as the Ascanians—North Germans who put their whole hearts into the struggles and troubles of the Mark—and he was not buried there. Sigismund was a younger son of the Emperor Charles IV, that wily and extravagant Luxemburger who the Bohemian King John, or had acquired by marriage, conquest, or guile, had entered into possession of Brandenburg. Frederick, having rejoined Sigismund, his liege lord, in Nuremberg, accompanied him to his coronation at Aix-la-Chapelle, and afterwards proceeded with him to the Council of Constance. Frederick’s removal to the North did not alter his bent for business and diplomacy.
